The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words

The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words

The ultimate gift for wordsmiths and lovers of language: a word for every day of the year

Promotion info

* Beautiful design and easy-to-dip-into page-a-day format.; * Paul Anthony Jones is one of the rising stars in his field, well connected and with an impressive track record of original research.; * His hugely popular Twitter account @HaggardHawks has 34.6k followers and is growing by the day.; * Celebrity supporters include JK Rowling, Robert Macfarlane, Joanne Harris, Richard Osman, Greg Jenner, Ian McMillan, Danny Baker, Susie Dent, Simon Mayo, Michael Rosen, Cerys Matthews.; * Regularly features in the Telegraph, Buzzfeed and Huffington Post.

Reviews

"A treasure-trove of rare words ... beautifully designed (that shade of blue is wonderful), and perfect either for dipping into every morning to learn a new word of the day, or for reading at a rather more headlong pace, as I found I was doing once I dipped my head into this wonderful cabinet of language trivia" -- Dr Oliver Tearle, InterestingLiterature.com; "I started reading these delightful daily doses of etymology last week, and plan to keep the book at my bedside for the whole of the year to come" - Bookish Beck; "The perfect book to dip in and out of" -- Short Book & Scribes; "There's something about words which soothes my soul and to have chance to take a look at words which have fallen out of common use and yet, when seen, still make the utmost sense, I am reminded of those people who have gone before and of the rich contribution they have made to our vocabulary ... Amongst the strange and forgotten words there are some real beauties to be discovered. Some made me smile, others made me nod my head in sage agreement, whilst others made me realise just how beautiful is our language" -- jaffareadstoo.blogspot.co.uk

Author description

Paul Anthony Jones is something of a linguistic phenomenon. He runs the popular @HaggardHawks twitter feed, blog and YouTube channel, revealing daily word facts to 34.6k engaged followers. This led to Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities (E&T, 2015) and The Accidental Dictionary (E&T, 2016). He is the author of several other books on trivia and language: The British Isles: A Trivia Gazetteer (Summersdale, 2012), Haggard Hawks & Paltry Poltroons (Constable, 2013) and Jedburgh Justice & Kentish Fire (Constable, 2014). He appears regularly in the Telegraph online, BBC Radio 4's World at One, Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post and Mental Floss, and has contributed to the Guardian, Independent and Woman's Weekly, and Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries online. A piano teacher and musician, he lives in South Tyneside.

Stock Information

General Fields

ISBN : 9781783963584

Publisher : Elliott & Thompson Limited

Imprint : Elliott & Thompson Limited

Publication date : September 2017

Dimensions : 216mm X 138mm

Availability date : August 2017

Product Type : books

Special Fields

Pages : 384

Author : Paul Anthony Jones

Bind : Hardback

Language : English

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